Khadija Gayibova

Khadija Gayibova (24 May 1893-27 October 1938) was a female pianist of the Soviet Union from Azerbaijan.

Biography
Khadija Gayibova was born on 24 May 1893 in Tiflis, Russian Empire (present-day Tbilisi, Georgia) to an Azeri Sunni Muslim father and a Volga Tatar mother, and she married the son of the Mufti of the Caucasus, an engineer. Gayibova became a pianist and composer, composing Azerbaijani folk music and teaching drama and music to women. In 1933, she was arrested during the Great Purge for counter-revolutionary activity and was executed by firing squad in Baku, Azerbaijan on 27 October 1938.